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(of Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 3: 75-82., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45888588#page/103/mode/1up [details]

Type data

Note Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five...

From editor or global species database

Type locality Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up River Dart, Devonshire, England, UK. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S

Distribution circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details]

Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean

Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]

Taxonomic citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137111 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-08-20 11:25:36Z

checked

Perrin, William

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original description (of Delphinus truncatus Montagu, 1821) Montagu, G. (1821). Description of a species of Delphinus, which appears to be new. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 3: 75-82., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45888588#page/103/mode/1up [details]

context source (HKRMS) Jefferson TA. & Hung SK. (2007). An updated, annotated checklist of the marine mammals of Hong Kong. Mammalia 71: pp 105-114. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Klatsky, L. J.; Wells, R. S.; Sweeney, J. C. (2007). Offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): movement and dive behavior near the Bermuda pedestal. Journal of Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, 88(1): 59-66 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]

additional source Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

additional source Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

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Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Holotype Skull in the British Museum (Natural History), London: GERM 353a collected July 3, 1814. Number 353h-62.7.18.15 given by Herskovitz (1966) was in error; it refers to a specimen without data purchased in 1862. [details]

IUCN Red List Category Least Concern (LC) [details]

Synonymy The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus has been only recently recognized as a separate species. Although an attempt has been made here to limit synonyms to those taxa described from the geographical region of non-overlap of T. truncatus with T. aduncus, with further research, some of the names now in the synonymy may be relegated to T. aduncus. A number of nominal species that relate to either one or the other of the two bottlenose dolphins (because they were named from the region of overlap of the two species) are listed in the database as "incertae sedis" and are not included above. Where holotype specimens exist for these, they have not yet been examined to determine their identity. [details]

Type locality Duncannon Pool, near Stoke Gabriel, about five miles up River Dart, Devonshire, England, UK. [details]

Unreviewed

Diet fish, cephalopods, invertebrates [details]

Dimensions Length: male 2.4-3.8 m (8-12.5'), females 2.3-3.7 m (7.5-12'), at birth .7 m (2.5') [details]

Distribution circum-global, mostly between 45°N and 45°S [details]

Distribution East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]

Habitat inshore and offshore [details]

Habitat tropical to temperate, coastal [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Afrikaans	stumpneusdolfynstompneusdolfyn	[details]
Arabic	delfin kabir	[details]
Basque	izurde handia	[details]
Bulgarian	Афалаafаlа	[details]
Catalan	molardofí mular	[details]
Croatian	dobri dupin	[details]
Danish	øresvin	[details]
Dutch	tuimelaar	[details]
English	common bottlenose dolphinbottle-nosed dolphinbottlenosed dolphinbottlenose porpoisebottlenose dolphinblack porpoise	[details]
French	tursiops nesarnaktursiopstursionsouffleuroudrenesarnarkgros dauphin grisgrand souffleurgrand dauphindauphin nesarnakdauphin à gros nez	[details]
German	Tümmlerhochcöpliger TümmlerGroßtümmlergrosser Tümmler	[details]
Hebrew	דולפינן ים-התיכוןdolphinan yam hatichon	[details]
Indonesian	lumba-lumba hidung botol	[details]
Italian	tursiope troncatotursiope tursionetursiodelfino soffiatoredelfino maggiore	[details]
Japanese	ハンドウイルカhanda irukabando iruka	[details]
Kalaallisut	nezarnak	[details]
Korean	keun-dolgorae	[details]
Latvian	lielaa-iuras-tsuuka	[details]
Lithuanian	afalina	[details]
Malagasy	lambondriaka aman'oron-tavoahangy	[details]
Malayalam	chankan eedi	[details]
Maltese	delfin geddumu qasir	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Ρινοδέλφινοrinodélfino	[details]
Norwegian	tumlertandthöije	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	tumler	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	tumlar	[details]
Polish	butlonos zwyczajny	[details]
Portuguese	toninharoaz-corvineiroroazgolfinho-nariz-de-garrafagolfinho-flíperdélfin-mularboto-da-tainha	[details]
Romanian	tursiops	[details]
Russian	chernyi delfinbolshoi delfinafalina (in Black Sea)afalina	[details]
Slovenian	velika pliskovka	[details]
Spanish	tursiontursiopez mularmularguamachindelfin pico de botelladelfin nariz de botelladelfín mulardelfin de las islasbufeo	[details]
Swedish	öresvinoresvin	[details]
Tamil	ongoleongil (dolphins in general)odan	[details]
Telugu	gadamu	[details]
Turkish	afalinaafale	[details]
Ukrainian	Афаліна чорноморськаАфаліна	[details]
Welsh	dolffin trwynbwldolffin trwyn potel	[details]